Cellphone driving bans of one type or another are present in most developed countries. http://www.cellular-news.com/car_bans/.

You are right, although researchers in the USA were amongst the first to document the danger of cellphone usage whilst driving, the USA is a relative late-comer in banning its occurrence, no doubt due to the usual "my voters don't care what science says" attitude of US politicians.

The even easier answer is just to ignore idiotic security guards talking out their backside, claiming they have legal powers that they do not.

No philosophical discussions about the role of government in society required.

"I'd venture to say the typical "climate denier" is more often denying that humanity is in control of the climate"
Only once their denials of any climate change even occurring have been proven wrong.

Making a massive leap of faith based on highly dubious doctrines and then refusing to acknowledge the proven falsities is fundamentally anti-science. Whereas reducing God simply to a "force which sparked the big bang" is fundamentally anti-religion.

"Both IE9 and Chrome are now FAR better browsers than Firefox 4/5/6."

That's a pretty subjective assertion. If you like those browsers better, good for you, use one of them.

In terms of resource usage though, at least Firefox (and Opera for that matter) actually reports it's resource usage readily rather than hiding half of it in worker threads like Chrome and IE do.

So you live in Manhattan and say it's a "scam" that trucks can't park outside your building?!? WTF, you are living in Manhattan FFS!

Why live in the most densely populated area of the country and then expect a service suited for areas of low population density? It's a pay-off you make for being surrounded by restaurants, bars, employment and everything else. What's more, even within Manhattan, if people being able to park right outside your building is really so important to you, simply live in a building with facilities for parking!

It's not a scam, it's plainly clear. You park where you aren't allowed to park you pay fine. You break basic road laws, you pay fine.

If you don't like it go to one of the many failed states of the world where laws aren't upheld.

Unfortunately, when opinion and reality conflict, most people choose their opinion over reality. http://www.motorists.org/red-light-cameras/

LOL. The link to such a blatantly partisan website is to prove this statement correct, right?

LOL, my thoughts exactly.

Someone using an iPad at a restaurant, is categorically NOT a techie on 2 counts.

But there never was any evidence from the emails of a cover-up, there was just politically motivated loud mouths screaming "conspiracy, conspiracy" until some people believed them. Most of the key data was already publicly available, but some wasn't released due to contractual reasons. Not that the accusers were clamoring to use the data, few would have the slightest clue what to do with it.

It's the same old usual story, clueless politically motivated people like politicians shout the loudest and so get listened to more than the scientists and people who actually know what they are talking about.